Computer music freqs WEȽ∝KER mint the LOLTRAX label with a fine showcase of adventurous new works from their native Manchester underground and beyond, including Kindohm screwing his style on killer ace, plus cuts from Rainer Veil’s Dan Valentine, Robin Fox, and many more spunky new oddballs
Headed by WEȽ∝KER’s Joe Beedles and Guillaume Dujat, LOLTRAX is a natural extension of the duo’s two releases since 2020 for Conditional and OOH-Sounds, and shows around the city and beyond. It seeks to offer a platform for their own work and that of fellow artists also in non trivial pursuit of electronic music fundamentals of rhythm, tone and noise for the hard to please, explorative listener with wide and patient ears.
We’re most impressed by Kindohm’s ‘001’, where the algorave artist subtly adapts his sheer and shearing sound to allow for coarser texture and wickedly screwed funk. WEȽ∝KER’s opining contribution ‘livedeath’ also stands out for the pair’s grasp of fractally amorphous arrangements and a newfound sensuality in their sound, neatly shared by the chain reaction of lush, gyring additive dub in Dan Valentine’s ‘Air Lock’, recalling special guest dj tekkerz and marking some of his first work released since his Rainer Veil LP with Liam Morley for Modern Love.
The set is also notable for introducing a number of female artists working within the all-too-boysclub zone of computer music, namely with the buckling pointillism of ‘Thrall’ by Chloë Sobek, Anna Xambo’s CPU hallucination ‘minnow (extract)’, Ellen Phan’s ace collage of backspins and warped asymmetries, and the cartoonish mania of ‘The Pleasure at being the Cause’ by Lauren Sarah Hayes. Add in the intricate Persian algorithmic geometries of works by Active Listeners Club’s pantea and 1000PA, and wickedly lurid artwork, and you’ve got a quintessential introduction to LOLTRAX madness.
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Computer music freqs WEȽ∝KER mint the LOLTRAX label with a fine showcase of adventurous new works from their native Manchester underground and beyond, including Kindohm screwing his style on killer ace, plus cuts from Rainer Veil’s Dan Valentine, Robin Fox, and many more spunky new oddballs
Headed by WEȽ∝KER’s Joe Beedles and Guillaume Dujat, LOLTRAX is a natural extension of the duo’s two releases since 2020 for Conditional and OOH-Sounds, and shows around the city and beyond. It seeks to offer a platform for their own work and that of fellow artists also in non trivial pursuit of electronic music fundamentals of rhythm, tone and noise for the hard to please, explorative listener with wide and patient ears.
We’re most impressed by Kindohm’s ‘001’, where the algorave artist subtly adapts his sheer and shearing sound to allow for coarser texture and wickedly screwed funk. WEȽ∝KER’s opining contribution ‘livedeath’ also stands out for the pair’s grasp of fractally amorphous arrangements and a newfound sensuality in their sound, neatly shared by the chain reaction of lush, gyring additive dub in Dan Valentine’s ‘Air Lock’, recalling special guest dj tekkerz and marking some of his first work released since his Rainer Veil LP with Liam Morley for Modern Love.
The set is also notable for introducing a number of female artists working within the all-too-boysclub zone of computer music, namely with the buckling pointillism of ‘Thrall’ by Chloë Sobek, Anna Xambo’s CPU hallucination ‘minnow (extract)’, Ellen Phan’s ace collage of backspins and warped asymmetries, and the cartoonish mania of ‘The Pleasure at being the Cause’ by Lauren Sarah Hayes. Add in the intricate Persian algorithmic geometries of works by Active Listeners Club’s pantea and 1000PA, and wickedly lurid artwork, and you’ve got a quintessential introduction to LOLTRAX madness.